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Olympus US and Sinclair Broadcast Group hacks tied to sanctioned Russian ransomware group

Posted on October 21, 2021 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker and Carly Page report: An “ongoing” cyberattack against the Japanese technology giant Olympus was caused by a Russian ransomware group sanctioned by the U.S. government, according to two people with knowledge of the incident. A new malware variant known as Macaw was used in the attack that began on October 10, which encrypted Olympus’…

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MA: Nock Middle School student faces identity theft charges

Posted on October 21, 2021 by Dissent

I looked at this news article because it struck me as unusual that a middle school student would be charged with identity theft, but after reading the story, it struck me that this may be more properly understood as a case of online harassment.  But then I realized that impersonation accounts can be used for…

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Members of at least two health insurance plans notified of ransomware attack on PracticeMax (updated)

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Dissent

Updated March 7, 2022:  PracticeMax reported this incident to the Maine Attorney General’s Office as impacting a total of 165,698 patients. Their updated notice explains that the breach began on April 17, 2021, and they became aware of technical problems on May 1, 2021. The notice also reads, in part: On October 19, 2021, while…

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A massive ‘stalkerware’ leak puts the phone data of thousands at risk

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: The private phone data of hundreds of thousands of people are at risk. Call records, text messages, photos, browsing history, precise geolocations and call recordings can all be pulled from a person’s phone because of a security issue in widely used consumer-grade spyware. But that’s about as much as we can tell you….

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In: Interstate cyber hackers’ gang busted; 6 held

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Dissent

TNS reports: In a major breakthrough, a joint team of the STF, Sonepat, Gurugram and Panipat police busted an inter-state computer hacker gang involved in getting online competitive exams cleared and arrested six persons in this regard. […] He said they confessed that they had got online and offline exams of Railway clerk, MTS, NIIT,…

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Ca: Hackers leak police takedown video, medical records in Durham Region breach by CL0P

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Dissent

Jon Woodward reports: A CTV News Toronto investigation has discovered that a data breach at the Durham Regional government is much larger than already known, including medical reports, complaints about medical treatment, and potential evidence in a criminal case. That data, including security camera video that shows a man’s arrest on a Durham Regional Transit…

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